Chapter 20: Not About the Money
"Well?" Lenox said. "Aren’t you going to give me an answer?"
"What answer are you expecting?" Matthew replied, his eyes fixed on Lenox. The man just told him that Catherine was going to start working part time tomorrow because of her mother’s surgery and that the money from the allowance list could really help her.
Matthew watched him carefully, half-expecting to see the ghost he’d seen before. He remembered it clearly—just before the incident with Adam. But since then, nothing. Not at the clinic. Not during class. The ghost hadn’t appeared again.
He couldn’t help but wonder if he had accidentally absorbed that ghost during the chaos and that was the reason why he somehow felt energetic that morning and the ghost had disappeared.
Once he was sure it wasn’t there, Matthew shifted his gaze to the rectangular pool nearby.
"You did it, didn’t you?" Lenox said. "You’re the one who removed Catherine’s name from the list."
"No. I didn’t," Matthew feigned ignorance.
"Matthew, will you stop being childish? What you’re doing is hurting Catherine’s chances of having a good high school life. Without that money—"
"Why does that concern me?" Matthew asked. "It’s not we’re close or something."
After dinner and asking the driver to take Teddy home, he stayed by the pool, hoping he might absorb more ghosts. But now that he felt full, they were gone again. That’s when Lenox showed up, bothering him with more pointless talk.
"Why are you acting like this all of a sudden?" Lenox asked, his hands shoved into his pockets. "Don’t you care about Catherine at all? I just told you, she’s going to start working part time. Do you really want her to suffer?"